How does a chicken lay an egg???

I have always heard you should always carry a camera with you.  Today I know why.  We were walking out back towards the chicken coop and saw Mozelle, our bantam hen, kind of acting funny so naturally we investigated.  All of a sudden she starts to lay an egg right in front of us.  All the years I have raised chickens and probably the thousands of eggs we have gathered I never saw one of my hens lay an egg.

Now that was awesome.  I just wish I had my video camera with me at the time.

Our first gourd.  Hopefully this will keep well once it is ripe.  Gina will use this for fall decorating.

I have shown some pictures of my chickens but I thought over the next couple of weeks I would introduce the chickens by name.  This is Butterball.  She is a Turken.  The name "Turken" arose from the mistaken idea that the bird was a hybrid of a chicken and the domestic turkey.  Butterball is quite nervous of our presents when we are in the pen.  As seen in the picture, she often will hid behind the tree until you leave.  She lays a small/med brown egg.